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After Funding Cuts, NPR and PBS Get $50M Boost From Far-Left Donors
By Liz Peek Staff
A coalition of liberal philanthropic organizations has pledged a combined $50 million to help rescue local NPR and PBS stations facing financial crisis due to recent federal funding cuts, the Washington Free Beacon reports. The initiative comes after Congress approved President Donald Trump’s rescission bill, which will cut approximately $500 million in federal funding to […]
Trump declares war on woke—and this beloved museum is in his crosshairs
By Liz Peek
President Donald Trump wants to make our government institutions Great Again, by scrubbing the DEI and anti-American messaging left behind by the Biden administration. One target of this clean-up effort is the Smithsonian Institution, which, as the president rightly claimed in an executive order earlier this year, has “come under the influence of a divisive, […]
Cuban-Born Exec Takes on Mamdani in NYC Mayoral Race: ‘I despise socialism’
By Liz Peek Staff
Joseph Hernandez, a 52-year-old entrepreneur originally from Cuba, has launched an independent bid for New York City mayor, setting himself apart as the ideological opposite of socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani, the New York Post reports. Hernandez, who immigrated to the U.S. at age seven with his family to escape Fidel Castro’s communist regime, openly criticizes […]
Note to critics of the Trump tariffs: This is not the 1930s
By Liz Peek
You could practically hear the cheering on Thursday as critics of President Trump finally got what they’ve waited months for — some indication that tariffs might (finally!) drive prices higher. Yesterday’s Producer Price Index report showed wholesale prices jumped 0.9 percent over the last month, the biggest gain since June 2022. It followed another benign […]
Con man Zohran Mamdani wants to ignore real causes of NYC’s affordability crisis
By Liz Peek
Zohran Mamdani is a con man. Not just because the socialist currently atop New York’s mayoral leaderboard lives in a rent-controlled apartment, which should offend everyone, but because he promises to make life more affordable for New Yorkers while ignoring the real causes of the Big Apple’s cost-of-living crisis. Mamdani is correct: New York is […]